*Imagine If The Tea Party Was Black*....Tim Wise

WaveCameCrashin

So now the Tea party is promoting racist ideas??? What?? Damn...some of you are really uninformed

Cosmo

unsung wrote:

What happens if the TEA Party rally that I went to was lead by a black man with a keynote speaker a black woman? In fact the local TEA Party leader is a black man.

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Then... does that mean that America is now a black nation.

Cosmo

Godfather. wrote:

in 1994 I tried to join (through proper channels) the operating engineers union and was told this by the union
rep, "if you were a minority or a woman epically a minority women I could have you in today".
sooo would that be considered racism ?
I did get in a year or so later but I had to be creative in how I went about getting in.

Godfather.

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Which Local is that?
I'm curious because I work in a big... like industrial sized Union shop and they let anyone join.

Lizard

Cosmo wrote:

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Which Local is that?
I'm curious because I work in a big... like industrial sized Union shop and they let anyone join.

Clearly!

KDH12

prfctlefts wrote:

I could really care less, cos anyone and everyone has the right to say whatever the hell they want in this country,but I guess he's refering to these people.http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/vi ... e9a8bbdb83
They look pretty peaceful to me.
Or maybe he was talking about these guys
http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090321

I have another question... Is pearl jam a racist band ? I mean Hey... I hardly see any black people if any at all at all the shows I've been to. It's not just shows in the south cos I saw them in Chicago last summer and I don't recall seeing any blacks,so surley they must be. So that would mean we all belong to a racist fan club to wouldn't ?
Of course not....
Did it ever occur to any of you that the reason you don't see many people of color at the Tea parties is becuase since the 60's most minorities have always voted democrat and most people at the tea parties are either republican,conservative,or Independent.
But to answer your question... Hell yeah I would.
"The color of a mans skin is no more significant than the color of his eyes" Bob M.

you accusing people of using the race card is getting hold

two paragraphs up...... maybe you should start to care less

lastly that is a gross miss quote of Bob Marley

WaveCameCrashin

KDH12 wrote:

prfctlefts wrote:

I could really care less, cos anyone and everyone has the right to say whatever the hell they want in this country,but I guess he's refering to these people.http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/vi ... e9a8bbdb83
They look pretty peaceful to me.
Or maybe he was talking about these guys
http://www.ringospictures.com/index.php?page=20090321

I have another question... Is pearl jam a racist band ? I mean Hey... I hardly see any black people if any at all at all the shows I've been to. It's not just shows in the south cos I saw them in Chicago last summer and I don't recall seeing any blacks,so surley they must be. So that would mean we all belong to a racist fan club to wouldn't ?
Of course not....
Did it ever occur to any of you that the reason you don't see many people of color at the Tea parties is becuase since the 60's most minorities have always voted democrat and most people at the tea parties are either republican,conservative,or Independent.
But to answer your question... Hell yeah I would.
"The color of a mans skin is no more significant than the color of his eyes" Bob M.

you accusing people of using the race card is getting hold

two paragraphs up...... maybe you should start to care less

lastly that is a gross miss quote of Bob Marley

How is that a gross mis quote ? It's clearly a verse from the song WAR...
If you really want to get technical. it was actully a speech given by emperor Hali Salasi in 1935 to the league of nations.

KDH12

okay maybe I should have said an inappropriate use of a quote

using the line from a speech to the league of nations (as you kindly pointed out), a line that symbolizes and speaks out against racism and oppression..... to prove some point you have about the tea party not being a racist movement.... is wrong IMO


edit....BTW you basically say in your post that "people of color" are uneducated on the issues and vote party lines..... which is a huge generalization that you make about other races, then quote a line that speaks about not seeing color.... :roll: I could easily say the same for rural whites folks as well, you know the ones attending the tea party rallies